“With pain,” says Pope Francis, I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of ...

Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to ...

Francis celebrated a New Year’s Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday that was dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus ...

The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and ...

The debut concert of the newly restored pipe organ at the Church of the Gesu evokes a 1903 papal ruling for the soul of ...

The Vatican’s condemnation of Israel reflects a double standard, especially when contrasted with its relative silence on other human rights abuses.

At St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church in Jackson, a small but growing community of Catholics is bringing back the Old Latin Mass. I talked to congregants to find out what draws them to it.

More than a dozen Catholic missionaries were killed worldwide in 2024, with most deaths occurring in Africa and Latin America ...

Repression, family dictatorship and growing Chinese influence marked Nicaragua in 2024. We present an overview of the 10 ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Offering his condolences, Pope Francis praised former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s Christian faith and ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

The 2024 National Eucharistic Congress was a capstone event during the third year of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ initiative to renew faith in the Eucharistic Lord. The five-day congress ...